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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2014
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Shotaro Ayuzawa, Wako, JP;
Yoshikazu Shirai, Tochigi, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an automobile body structure, since a center pillar connecting a side sill and a roof side rail is formed from a pair of CFRP laminates that oppose each other on the inside and the outside in the vehicle width direction and a plurality of metal plates that join the pair of CFRP laminates in the vehicle width direction so as to form a closed cross-section, a compressive load and a tensile load acting on the vehicle width direction inner face and the vehicle width direction outer face of the center pillar when the collision load of a side collision is inputted can be supported by carbon fibers of the pair of CFRP laminates, and out of plane deformation of a front face and a rear face of the center pillar, which is difficult to support with the CFRP laminate, can be prevented by the metal plate.